Category: HUB Opinion
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Small acts of kindness can make a difference
Coda Greg Bean There was a moving letter to the editor in last week’s edition of one of our newspapers, the Suburban, from a woman named Rosemary Mulvanerton, who wanted to thank the staff of a local Wendy’s restaurant for making her husband a cheeseburger. It seems Ms. Mulvanerton’s husband had been in the hospital…
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Letters
Criticism of charter school is one sided I have made a point of it to refrain from getting into the ugliness of what has become the debate concerning the existence of the Red Bank Charter School (RBCS), but it has recently dawned on me that it is not a debate at all but, instead, a…
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A somber toast for the coming year
Coda Greg Bean When the United States entered World War II in 1941, my maternal grandfather — who was born in a homesteader’s sod hut in 1907 — was 34 years old. He had grown up a cowboy, ridden rodeo as a young man and taught in a one-room schoolhouse before he married my grandmother,…
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Boro Board of Ed. names interim super
Mahon will head district until Krewer BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — At a time when financial issues are in the forefront, the Red Bank Board of Education has named an interim superintendent to head the district while the search for a new superintendent is under way. The board…
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Letters
We I’m so proud of the state’s Blue Ribbon nomination of the Red Bank Borough Primary School, but the possibility of a ribbon is already starting to unravel. We are throwing our hard-earned property tax dollars and hard-working kids away by continuing to let the Red Bank Charter School exist. I’m going to end up…
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Don’t believe it, son. He’s making it all up
Coda Greg Bean Over the years, I’ve made every member of my family and many of my friends cringe when I wrote about them in a column. For a long time, whenever I wrote about something one of them might consider embarrassing, I’d take the column home and read it to them before it went…
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We’re not ‘koi’ about admitting our mistakes
Bloopers Adele Young We like to end each year by looking back at the collection of typos and usage errors that came across the copy desk and almost made it into print in one of our 12 weekly publications during the year. X-rated One word that newspapers use hundreds of times in each issue is…
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It’s not the thought, it’s the gift that counts
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch It’s Christmastime, and for me the season officially arrived the second I heard that dang dog barking out “Jingle Bells” on the radio. Oh, the unadulterated bliss. The big day is just around the corner, and I’m taking every shortcut available to me. I’m regifting last year’s fruitcake, I’ve…
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Cleary promoted to superintendent at MRHS
Asst. superintendent tapped to succeed Collum who is retiring BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Monmouth Regional High School has appointed a new superintendent from within the district. In fact, the new appointee, James W. Cleary, has been serving as the assistant superintendent at the high school for the past four years.…
